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by kamjam 14y ago
Did anybody actually ever host "important files" on MegaUpload? I know people say they did, but did they actually? If they did that's just plain stupid.
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by kamjam 14y ago
Fair enough, but maybe he is not blogging it for himself. Sometimes this kind of thing is good to hear and motivating for those making their way up the ranks (so to speak). We can't all be brilliant programmers. Heck I'm not, but I've been
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by kamjam 14y ago
I might do this, think of all those communist countries out there that are unable to use this software due to this stupid clause! :-)
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by kamjam 14y ago
So you're saying only people who are rubbish at what they do should be blogging? Surely that's what YouTube is for, people with no talent to post some random rubbish about something that nobody actually cares about?
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by kamjam 14y ago
Not necessarily. The first may cause you to miss deadlines, piss of clients and ultimately lose the company money because you focused on code... I think it is important to balance both. But I get (and agree) with your point.
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by kamjam 14y ago
Apple lawyer Danny Williams told the jury that the iPhone maker does not owe money to VirnetX, adding that the company is "not entitled to money for things they did not invent. The VirnetX technology, if used, is a small part of very large
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by kamjam 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation, makes sense. I see what you mean about the sporadic nature of the insertions!
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by kamjam 14y ago
I know it's a joke, but it's lazy programming/lazy thoughts like this that caused the issues with the systems in the first place :) Although I still don't fully understand why leap seconds caused such a problem - we can handle leap years an
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by kamjam 14y ago
Fair point, and I'd agree with you - I'd defo go over clearer code than something purely for premature optimization... except I think the examples given were MORE readable afterwards, at worst you've ended up with optimised code! Problem wi
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by kamjam 14y ago
I think points 4 and 5 are just premature optimization.... The speed difference is meaningless. There's no such thing as premature optimization or meaningless speed differences. Would you say the same thing if the code was in Java/C#/Ruby
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by kamjam 14y ago
And we all know how much ethics politicians have...
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by kamjam 14y ago
Ok, but also view th TEDtalk I linked to, it has an actual implementation and Jeff Han zooms in using 2 fingers.
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by kamjam 14y ago
Which is as silly as those patents which essentially took existing ideas and added "on the web" to the end of them. Not saying you're wrong, just what everyone else has been screaming - the patent system is broken!
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by kamjam 14y ago
Did you see the video I linked to? This was actually real and that video is dated 1 year before the iPhone was even announced, let alone released. Besides, as far as I've read (and I haven't read the details of the patents themselves) they
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by kamjam 14y ago
Marmite games! I was cynical too before they started, but was hooked after the opening ceremony. I think beseku's point was the games themselves were fantastic, and the majority of people really enjoyed it. I think the article points out so
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by kamjam 14y ago
You know, I was just thinking the same thing about Minority Report. How does that not serve as prior art? I'm sure there are plenty of others before this as well. Someone commented on that blog about the TED talk that did a demo on "the pin
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by kamjam 14y ago
Most users are going to have trouble enough trying to forget about the missing Start Menu even after watching the Welcome Intro... Exactly, most users being the key point. You need to target all this stuff for the lowest key denominator
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by kamjam 14y ago
So does this mean if someone is found to have BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes then they have to pay Myriad Genetics Inc a license fee? Maybe we all need to take out licenses just in case, otherwise we'll get those patent trolls writing us nasty letter
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by kamjam 14y ago
I have an iPhone jack in my car, I listen to the radio occasionally, it's nice to listen to something different and hear a bit of new music, re-discover some old songs rather than rehashing my usual playlists out over and over again... I do
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by kamjam 14y ago
It's the same in the UK. Although this time apparently it is truly "unlimited" according to No data caps, speed limits, or bill shock I was on an "unlimited" plan here with a 3GB monthly limit... I could go over it but it was a 3 strike
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by kamjam 14y ago
But I've met plenty of people who come out of uni with a CS degree and don't know squat. I totally get the distinction, and there needs to be a distinction between someone playing around, someone who is a junior and someone who is truly bri
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by kamjam 14y ago
Totally, but that's kind of the reason the industry is exciting. I get bored writing the same piece of code twice, I'm not sure I'd survive in any other kind of job where I'm doing the same thing day in/day out. I LOVE the fact I still get
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by kamjam 14y ago
If you read past the title you'll notice that the guy got a job as a JUNIOR developer. The email he sent out was looking for an internship/apprenticeship/junior programming position open in the area. Doesn't look like he is trying to run
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by kamjam 14y ago
I know plenty of programmers without degrees, I was extremely surprised some of them didn't because they were so bloody good! The thing is with having an IT degree, this industry moves so quick how much of what you learnt is still relevant
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by kamjam 14y ago
None of which is actually substantiated. Neither is the rape that he is accused of...
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by kamjam 14y ago
Errm, you do realise the "local area" of the European Union comprises of 27 members states/countries and according to Wikipedia: With a combined population of over 500 million inhabitants, or 7.3% of the world population, the EU, in 2011,
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by kamjam 14y ago
If people, beginners or not, come to w3schools and take it as the bible then they are in the wrong field and need to quit NOW. I'd say it was fairly obvious that this is a bare bones basics site (I used it, albeit about 10 years ago) that n
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by kamjam 14y ago
#2: How is that w3schools fault that they are listed top of Google's search results? What do you expect them to do, somehow reduce their ranking? Surely it is the job of other sites to increase their ranking?
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by kamjam 14y ago
With more companies going more and more to a purely online presence, I've found customer service to be rapidly degrading. They provide no phone numbers to contact them and they take an age to reply by email with a standard copy and paste re
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by kamjam 14y ago
If think I am with robbiea on this one, if you get to the point where you are at an exit interview then management should already know why you are leaving, if they don't then that's your fault for not making your grieviences be heard. I

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